Field Notebook: Quebec 1919
Page 51
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Transcription
"The only way this conglomerate could have formed (Leave on paper of the idea) is a rock slide and jolted into the sea. As none of the large pieces show deformation or folding it may mean that critical elevation took place at the close of the upper Cambrian and from these fault scarps the material broke away and slid in long rock slides into the sea. All of these great conglomerates here make cliff ridges and appear to be at the base of the sillery in dark dolites though I did see nearby some red dolites. The smaller pieces ground rounded but many of them are too well rounded to be of other origin than to grave works. Then for there are no empty spaces as all the interstices are filled up with sand or quartz conglomerate. The phenomena here are similar to those of the Car Head conglomerate only that here the pebbles are smaller, but the ridges of deep cliff are more extensive than in Newfoundland. (Leave on paper of this comparison.) It is just a regulation conglomerate and the bottoms of either the sandstone, quartz conglomerate or limestone may be of cliff origin, rolled round in the sea.